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by ralph 19y ago
Thanks for the info, I've now managed to submit my email address.
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by ralph 19y ago
I'd be very interested to hear others views on the CPS or closures style. Myself, I think it's flawed for the reasons given in my other post but I may be missing something and if so would like to know what. Else it seems an elegant but im
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by ralph 19y ago
Thanks for the explanation. We draw the line at paying transaction fees out of our own pockets, that's all. Oh, quite right. I wasn't expecting you to, that's why I wondered how these costs got covered. I like the idea of the tip recipi
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by ralph 19y ago
How do you take payment from me when you come calling asking me to cover my tip pledges? Say it's Visa. They charge for that so how do you cover your costs? I like the idea of asking the content authors to tip you in turn when you pass t
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by ralph 19y ago
The "give us your email address to hear future news" form isn't working. There's no response from dreamhost as at 2007-05-26 13:12:48 +0100. Can you let us know when it's back?
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by ralph 19y ago
First off, I like the elegancy of the CPS approach, however... The continuation-passing approach doesn't scale. Not only to multiple machines, as papersmith points out, but on a single machine. news.yc has (had?) problems with a theoretic
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by ralph 19y ago
The article's domain displayed in parenthesis afterwards has an occasional leading period, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=24263 and .brainspl.at.
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by ralph 19y ago
Personally, I put these lines in my ~/.inputrc. It allows the vi key-bindings to still work but a few of the non-vi ones can leak through. set keymap vi-insert C-p: previous-history C-n: next-history C-b: backward-char C-f: forward-char C-
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by ralph 19y ago
Is the order of comments stable? Sometimes it seems they change without the number of points altering. A stable ordering would be good.
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by ralph 19y ago
Don't waste your time clicking on the link.
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by ralph 19y ago
That's a pretty pessimistic view of code copying. There's real-world experience for you. I don't know why there'd inherently be bugs in a decently simple chunk of code. There's often bugs, especially if the language or API is unwieldy
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by ralph 19y ago
Anyway, as Java's such a popular language, you can get away with copying other people's 100 lines if you really need to. A quick Google search turned up an image scaler outright. You'd be copying its bugs too. And you wouldn't pick up an
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by ralph 19y ago
If he starts with Python, he may not know there's other languages. If he... If he starts with digital computers, he may not know there's analogue ones. :-)
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by ralph 19y ago
Django is a reasonable enough one to learn. He hasn't the skills to examine the possible contenders and make a good decision himself. After learning Django, then he may be in a position to better appraise the competition. Likewise, I didn
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by ralph 19y ago
What's your aim? If you've K&R are you trying to learn C? If you want to learn the Unix philosophy then get Kernighan and Pike's _The Unix Programming Environment_. If you want to create a web start-up, learn Python and Django. What ski
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by ralph 19y ago
Intel's Classmate has inferior technology with much higher cost, e.g. the screen, and the poor battery life, last time I looked. http://www.gettysfamily.org/wordpress/?p=34
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"Intel should be ashamed of itself" -- OLPC's Negroponte(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by ralph 19y ago
Contrast still not enough. See my recent comment on your other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=23231
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by ralph 19y ago
2007-05-19 13:12:52 +0100: The text is too dark. The copyright at the bottom is barely visible, same with upcoming, popular, new. submit event is a bit more visible. The "Enter a date..." is readable but hard work. This is on a CRT tha
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by ralph 19y ago
The OP explanatory comment has drifted down the page by now. This feature request would be useful to stop this. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1149
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by ralph 19y ago
Adding a comment doesn't work because it can easily drift down the page. There needs to be a way to supply an initial comment with a URL that remains tied to it at the top of the page. It doesn't need to be votable.
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by ralph 19y ago
I still think the site should allow a comment with the URL otherwise, with popular threads, the initial explanatory comment can be pushed down into obscurity. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1149
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by ralph 19y ago
Thanks. It would be nice if the site allowed comments to be submitted along with a URL so that readers know what they're meant to get from the article.
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by ralph 19y ago
dn't s th bnft f rmvng vwls frm trlls psts.
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by ralph 19y ago
Be like Google and don't cache rich media in the proxy, just text/html, etc. An upstream proxy can be a full caching one, e.g. like Squid, perhaps the one at their ISP.
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by ralph 19y ago
Perhaps you could clarify something that's puzzled me. I thought when I first heard about it, the phrase was "Do no evil". Then "Don't be evil" became more prevalent. Was there ever a switch, or was it just mis-reported initially?
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by ralph 19y ago
Relevancy?
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by ralph 19y ago
No one (except me, maybe) will admit to downvoting someone because of an ideological disagreement. I vote up a comment if I strongly agree with it. Conversely, I vote down a comment if I strongly disagree with it. Those in between, whic
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by ralph 19y ago
A taller text area box for entering comments. Say double the current height.
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by ralph 19y ago
Give them more advice and guidance on the submissions page. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=20487 Drop karma. Still have voting on threads and comments but don't collect that up into a public karma for an individual. Karma is c

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